Dates
- Cover date
- Winter 1958
- On sale
- October 29, 1958
- Pages
- 84
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #9 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition25¢ coverSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Bubble Gum Blues · 10 pages
The West Side Warriors try to get away from the "stupid girls" by turning their clubhouse into a boat. Meanwhile, the girls have taken up fortune telling and warn the boys that if they're not nice, the "good fairy" won't come to help them. The fortune comes true, but with a different spelling than the boys expected.
- Sum Friend · 1 pages
Moose is forbidden to pitch for the school team because of his bad grades in math.
- Map Saps · 9 pages
Little Archie and Reggie hire Ambrose to create a map of the neighborhood that they can use to plot strategy against the South Side Serpents. After Ambrose turns in a beautifully-made map, they try to find a flaw in it so they can get out of paying him.
- Taboo It May Concern · 5 pages
Little Archie asks Betty to a movie on Friday the 13th, and Betty goes reluctantly, worried about bad luck.
- The Reign Is Over · 6 pages
Little Archie and his friends play a game based on "The Prince and the Pauper," and Little Archie enjoys being the Prince.
- Plane Advice · 6 pages
After Fred helps Little Archie with his model plane, his boss gets the mistaken idea that Fred can fly actual planes.
- Secret Talk! · Bunny and the Kids · 1 pages
Bunny gloats about knowing a secret.
- Reptiles of Yesterday · 1 pages
- Hit and Miss! · 1 pages
Greg throws snowballs at Li'l Jinx.
- For Friendship's Ache · 4 pages
Little Archie tries to talk Moose out of beating up Jughead.
- Art Antics · 0.7 pages
Reggie is chosen by Miss Grundy to help decorate the gym.
- Untitled · 0.3 pages
Ambrose is club Secretary even though he can't write.
- Sweet Talk · 1 pages
Betty won't give Jughead a piece of candy unless he says nice things about her.
- The Great Apes · 1 pages
- Film Fun · 6 pages
Director Little Archie shoots a Western film with Ronnie as the leading lady.
- The World's Largest Mammal · 1 pages
An introduction to various whales.
- Keep 'Em Flying · 5 pages
Little Archie makes a kite tail out of his father's ties.
- Ride or Wrong · 1 pages
Jughead opens a dog-walking service, but charges half price on big dogs.
- Business Forecast · 1 pages
Ambrose opens a newsstand where he sells yesterday's papers.
- American Mammals · 1 pages
- Thin Ice? · 1 pages
Li'l Jinx goes skating.
- Friend or Foe · 4 pages
After his father encourages him to try harder to make friends, Little Archie goes out and befriends a squirrel, who promptly drives his father crazy.
- Berry Good Friends · 1 pages
Ronnie does the old Vaudeville "that's good/that's bad" phone routine, complete with the traditional punchline ("I helped her sort the strawberries").
- Sports Sharpy · 1 pages
Ambrose uses his dog George to help him score a touchdown against the South Side Serpents.
- Business Bungle · 8 pages
Inspired by all the advice-givers in TV and newspapers, Little Archie starts "Little Archie's Good Advice Business," offering advice to anyone who can pay him in jellybeans. All the kids are disgusted by his greed and stop liking him, except Evelyn, who becomes his secretary, and Ambrose, who Little Archie tells to "go jump in the lake." And it's that bit of advice that leads to Ambrose becoming the most popular kid on the West Side. An act of generosity by Ambrose then makes Little Archie realize that friends are more important than jellybeans any day.
Reprinted in
Archie Comics Digest (1973), Archie's Double Digest Magazine (1984), Little Archie Comics Digest Magazine (1985), Laugh Comics Digest / Laugh Comics Digest Magazine / Laugh Digest Magazine (1974), World of Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (2010), Archie (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest (2011), Jughead and Archie Double Digest (2014)